Mega Disasters

Bolt, Seven, 6.30pm

For super-dog Bolt, every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue – at least, until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit television show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood sound stage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet – a cross-country journey through the real world.

Logan’s Run, GO!, 12.30am

One of the all time classic Sci Fi movies gets another replay on GO! In the year 2274, the world’s urban centres have been abandoned due to ecological disaster, and the remaining population has forged a society in a domed city, where no one is allowed to live past age 30. Michael York stars as a population control agent who, nearing the age of 30, goes on the run to avoid certain death, and Richard Jordan plays his ex-partner determined to hunt him down. Starring: Michael York, Richard Jordan

Mega Disasters – Oil Apocalypse, 7mate 10.30pm.

The world we’ve created runs on oil, but the oil won’t last forever. Many experts predict that it will begin to run out sometime this century. The best-case scenario is a worldwide depression but what is the worst-case scenario?

Animal Mega Moves, SBS ONE, 7.30pm.

This episode follows a team attempt to capture and move a herd of 80 elephants 400km across Africa to a special reserve. It’s a huge challenge. The team helicopters to locate the herds in the bush, dart them to tranquilise them, then use cranes to carefully lift them onto trucks and transport them by road to their new

Four Corners, ABC News 24, 8.01pm (AEST)

If you missed this week’s episode on ABC1, here is your chance to catch it again. It covers in depth the pros and cons of the National Broadband Network, as investigated by Stephen Long. It also shows the NBN at work and how it has transformed one school in Tasmania already hooked up to the network.

Saturday, December 4, at 6.30pm on The History Channel

Tonight’s episode – Mega Tsunami In 6,000 B.C., 8,000 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, waves taller than the Statue of Liberty ravaged the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, devastating ancient villages and killing untold numbers. Watch as a team of scientist’s piece together evidence of this mega storm and reveal the face of this ancient tsunami for the first time. 3-D computer generated animation recreates the massive waves that may have changed the course of history

Wednesday, October 6, at 8.30pm on The History Channel

The world’s largest, most active volcano system exists in the western US. 6,000 years ago, the Yellowstone Volcano erupted. Lava and pyroclastic flows covered 3,000 square miles with ash 3-feet thick. Fossils discovered as far away as Nebraska were found to have died from inhaling the Yellowstone debris. If, or perhaps we should say when, it erupts again, the Yellowstone Mega-Volcano will create a global cataclysm beyond human comprehension. Everything within 150 miles, including the cities of Cody, Wyoming and Bozeman, Montana, will be hit by an 800-degree blast of heat and 200 miles-per-hour winds. Thousands will be killed. That’s just the local effects. Half the US will be buried beneath a blanket of volcanic ash. Crops in the Midwest, the world’s breadbasket, will be destroyed. And it will take years before crops can grow again. Starvation, epidemics, and social chaos won’t be long in coming.

A somewhat partial program for the first week of 7mate has been released, revealing that day time programming is mostly a mix of old TV shows and the odd old movie – yes great use of a HD channel that is – and NBC Today show at 9am.

The typical weekday looks like this:

6.00am Wagon Train
7.00 Virginian
8.30 McHale’s Navy
9.00 NBC Today
12.00pm Situation Critical
1.00 Quincy M.E.
2.00 Magnum PI
3.00 The Rockford Files
4.00 Knight Rider
5.00 The A Team

Programming for 7mate’s first full day of independent programming Sunday Sept 26 is the same as the above weekday line up from 2pm, with movies at 10am at 12pm.

From 6pm to midnight, only highlights have been released so far, with a lot of TBA’s to be filled in. note these are all new episodes.

Saturday Sept 25
6.30pm Gene Simmons Family Jewels
8.30pm Punk’d

Sunday Sept 26.
No details at all yet.

Monday Sept 27
6pm Monster Garage (Ep 12)
7:30pm Fifth Gear (S9E8)
10:00pm Parks and Recreation (S2E6)

Tuesday Sept 28
10:30pm Nitro Winter Wonderland. (Ep 1)

Wednesday Sept 29
8:30pm Family Guy (S9E11)
9:00pm American Dad (S6E6)

Thursday Sept 30
7:30pm Gene Simmons Family Jewels (S1 E2 / E3) (premiere Sept 25)
8:30pm Warehouse 13 (S1E1)
9:30pm Caprica (S1E1)

Friday Oct 1
7:30pm The Boneyard (Ep 1)
8:30pm Ax Men (S2E1)

Saturday Oct 2
7:30pm Mighty Ships (Ep 5)
8:30pm Mega Disasters (Ep 1)
9:30pm The Universe (Ep 1)

At this stage, the rest of the prime time content is yet to be revealed. Some of the gaps could be movies, as well as other shows they are yet to decide.

At midnight, Lost will be played. From 1am to 5.30am, are repeats of some of the day time shows with Quincy M.E first at around 12.50, then Magnum PI, The Rockford Files, Knight Rider and The A Team. Deal or no Deal repeats can be seen at 5.30am.

The only exception to the early morning day time repeats is Wednesday nights (Thursday mornings)where Home Shopping is scheduled for 2am. At least it is only one night, but the question is why bother – surely we deserve one channel completely free of Home Shopping?

The 7mate schedule is only the first release. It is subject to change, and as we have seen every time a new channel launches, there will be changes both in the lead up to the September 25 launch, as well as possibly more as the channel is on air as the network reacts to ratings.

At this stage, it looks like 7mate ratings will not be separated from those of Seven when it launches. There is no date from OzTam for the channel to count as its own, meaning, initially at least, 7mate ratings will be part of Seven’s.

Some programming information from TV Tonight.